The Reality of Booze!

Photo to Right: The Chicago
United Mission at 34 S. Desplaines in downtown Chicago where I spent my
childhood. My father directed the mission for over 15 years, and
I tagged along almost daily. The famed Legion Hotel cannot be seen
to the right of the building; but Al Capone was a regular there in it's
heyday.

Alcohol is a much bigger problem than the beer companies and beer
drinkers would like for us to think. There's an untold story. Every year, millions of
people are victimized, one way or another, by alcoholic beverages. Children especially, are hurt because of booze.

I grew up in
Chicago. My father was a Skidrow minister in downtown Chicago,
directing the Chicago United Mission at 34 S. Desplaines for many years. Before
that, he was the assistant director of the Christian Industrial
League (another mission). My father often preached at the
Olive Branch Mission and the Pacific Garden Mission, and I
would tag along as a child, observing all that was happening.

My mother often played the piano. I would quote a verse or two. I
simply cannot tell you how many men and women I saw lying in the gutter,
literally, because of booze. I saw many dead bodies in my years
growing up around Skidrow, and the police paddywagon that came to collect the
bodies. Only God fully knows the amount of evil caused because of
alcohol.

Listen friend, I can show you a few pictures and some
statistics on my website, but you simply do not know the hellishness of
alcohol until you've spent your youth growing up around Skidrow. I
cannot possibly convey to you the images forever engrained in my mind of
men lying drunk by garbage pails. I regularly walking over battered
bodies in the doorway of the mission, of men drinking paint-thinner to
satisfy their ungodly addiction to alcohol.

My father provided shelter for over 100 men each night, a bowl of soup,
some bread and butter, and a cold floor
to sleep on (but not as cold as the sidewalk). Men were provided
with clothing to use for blankets. There simply weren't enough beds for a hundred
people. Cardboard or old donated clothing was tossed upon the
floor for the men to sleep on. There were some poor women too. It was a common practice for sleepers to cover their heads at night,
because the rats would sometimes crawl over them on the floor. Rats were a constant problem in downtown Chicago. I've caught many
rats in my time— “super-rats” as big as a full-grown cat! The
one common denominator I saw amongst the poor in all my years of helping
my father on Skidrow was ALCOHOL!

I've stood at my father's side during many
funerals he was asked to conduct. It was just me, my dad, and the
corpse! No family! No loved ones! The beer companies
won't show you this. Alcohol will take you to a lonely grave and the pits of Hell! As Chicago's urban development came into force, they closed down most of
the missions. There was no help for the poor where there was once
help. As a result, hundreds of poor people literally froze to
death on the streets of Chicago. Drinking alcohol numbs the body to the
point that you don't realize you're freezing to death. Many of them didn't even realize
they were dying. Alcohol has caused untold multitudes of victims to freeze to death. So you see, there's a very good reason why I fight uncompromisingly
against alcohol—because I grew up around Skidrow and I know firsthand where
the road of alcohol often leads!

Booze Kills! Steals! and Destroys!

Helpful Information to Fight
Against Alcohol!

According to CNN medical correspondent Dr. Steve Salvatore...

It doesn't take much

Actually, a driver can be impaired with a
U.S. blood-alcohol level as low as .03.

When you drink alcohol, it goes straight from the stomach to the
bloodstream. Alcohol can be detected in the blood as fast as five
minutes after drinking, and its effects -- most obvious in the central
nervous system -- peak in about 30 to 45 minutes.

Alcohol depresses the central nervous system which, in turn, impairs
motor function, motor performance, speech and eye movements. These
skills are not only slowed down, they are performed more inaccurately.
Alcohol also affects the ability to think and reason clearly. -SOURCE

Do you see the great DECEPTION of the .08
BAC legal limit? At just .05 BAC, the human body is already
experiencing impairment of coordination. This is serious folks! What is wrong with our legislatures? Are they brain dead? Get this ... our very SAME government which sets the BAC legal limit at
.08, also states the following...

"The National
Highway Traffic Safety Administration's (NHTSA) position on the relationship
between blood alcohol concentration and driving is that driving performance
degrades after just one drink."

Am I missing something here? If the NHTSA (our
government) admits that even ONE ALCOHOLIC DRINK degrades a person's driving
performance, then why in the name of common sense doesn't our government's
lawmakers lower the BAC to equate to ONE DRINK? Tragically, our
government leaders are playing games with people's lives, and people ARE
DYING!

EXPECTED
BLOOD ALCOHOL CONCENTRATION (“BAC”)BASED ON THE NUMBER OF DRINKS
YOU'VE CONSUMED IN A ONE-HOUR PERIOD

Remember- your sex, health, state of mind make all
these expectations a bit variable.

BODY WEIGHT IN
POUNDS

1 drink

2drinks

3

4

5

6

7

8

90 - 109

110 - 129

130 - 149

150 - 169

170 - 189

190 - 209

210 - 229

230 & UP

For the purposes of
this chart, “One Drink” =12 oz. Beer or 4 oz. Wine or 1 1/4
oz. 80-Proof Liquor. If you prefer 18 oz. cans of beer
or 90-Proof Liquor, you need a different chart!

BAC of .01%
to .05%NOTE THAT FOR MANY PEOPLE, ONLY “ONE” DRINK
WILL TAKE THEM TO THIS LEVEL OF DECREASED COORDINATION.

Some-to-great loss of judgment and
coordination, thinking dulled, changes in mood and
behavior.A
BAC of 0.02% at many U.S. companies will require that an
employee be relieved of duty for 24 hours and at 0.04 they
will be fired.In
an organization with a "zero-tolerance" policy as regards
alcohol use, you will be fired if you test at 0.001% (which is
less than 0.010%)

BAC of .05%
to .08%NOTE THAT EVERYONE HAS REACHED THIS
POINT AFTER JUST THEIR 1ST OR 2ND
DRINK!

BAC of .08%
and overNOTE THAT
SOME PEOPLE REACH THIS POINT BY THEIR 2ND DRINK AND
ALL HAVE BY THEIR 3RD OR
4TH.

Functioning and
judgment very seriously affected. Responses greatly
slowed. Behavior greatly affected. Very high risk of accident.
In most U.S. States, with a BAC of .08% or higher, you will be
arrested if driving a car.

.

CLICK HEREfor the BAC
levels in each U.S. State at which you will be (and should be!)
arrested if you are caught driving a
car while under the influence of alcohol.

As anyone can clearly see from the chart above,
having even ONE 12oz. DRINK of beer can cause a person weighing over 200 LBS.
to have a BAC of up to .05!!! What strikes me as strange, and a definite
double-standard, is that many companies will fire an employee who comes to
work with a BAC of .04% or more; but the legal system won't do anything to
punish that person for driving under the influence until their BAC hits .08. Why the double-standard? Why are private companies more concerned about
their employees than our government's lawmakers are about it's own people who
entrusted them to power? Something smells rotten in Washington!

“The saloon is the sum of all villainies. It is worse than war or
pestilence. It is the crime of crimes. It is the parent of
crimes and the mother of sins. It is the appalling source of
misery and crime in the land. And to license such an incarnate
fiend of hell is the dirtiest, low-down, damnable business on top of
this old earth.” —Billy
Sunday

The
Hypocrisy of U.S. Laws (Some people go to
prison for decades for minor drug offenses (and they don't even
hurt anybody), losing their homes, losing their children, losing their
life, etc; while reckless drunks who DO kill and hurt others go
virtually unpunished. This is because of the rich beer
companies, and the evil lobbyists, lawyers, judges, and politicians
who have sold their soul to the almighty dollar.)

WAIRARAPA
TIMES-AGE--August 5th, 2002 | ALCOHOL and speed have again been linked to a
serious crash in Wairarapa. The single-car crash occurred about
10.45 p.m. on Saturday night on Upper Plain Road. Both occupants in the
car had to cut from the wreckage.

Masterton Senior Sergeant Geoff Reid said the passenger,
Bernadette Keen, 46, of Wellington, suffered severe injuries to
her left hand after all her fingers were ground off and had to be
recovered from underneath the car. She also suffered serious head
and chest injuries and is in the neurosurgical ward at Wellington
Hospital.

Did you read that? ... “all
her fingers were ground off and had to be
recovered from underneath the car.” Does that sound like
a Miller High Life to you? It appears to me that
Budweiser is much DUMBER than wiser. Red Dog? ...you mean
"Dead Dog?" The Word of God WARNS us about the deceitfulness of
alcohol in Proverb 20:1; but people don't listen ... “Wine
is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived
thereby is not wise.” The word "deceived" comes from the
Hebrew word “shagah” and means “a deceiver.” Thus, alcohol
is a deceiver! The PROOF is in the news, in the statistics,
in the broken families, in the emergency rooms, and in the
cemetery.

Photo to
Right: SEATTLE - September 5th, 2005 | A woman was killed in a car
crash on Interstate 5. Washington State Troopers suspect alcohol was a factor.

There is a great
hypocrisy in America, by the numerous beer producers who
propagate the SMOKESCREEN, “Don't drink and drive.” The FACT is
that millions of Americans get into their cars and drive away
daily after having at least one drink of beer. According to
our government's own
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
(NHTSA), these drivers are extremely dangerous. That's what
the NHTSA said: JUST ONE DRINK degrades a driver's ability to
drive properly!

If the beer companies truly meant what they
are saying, then they would have their lawyers lobby for laws
restricting drinkers from driving at all; but they don't. So while
the wealthy beer companies are preaching “live responsibly” and “don't drink and drive”; they are simultaneously doing
absolutely nothing to keep people from driving after having one
drink of beer. Why don't they put their money where their
mouth is?

So you see, we have
long been deceived by liars and fraudsters, who claim to be
against abortion in order to get the vote of conservatives; but
those politicians are in reality as liberal as can be. The
beer companies are liars just the same, leading the public to
believe that they are genuinely concerned about
alcohol-abusive-drivers; yet, they do nothing to stop, or even
condemn, the millions of drinkers who drive daily AFTER drinking.

The term “don't drink and drive” implies refraining from drinking
alcohol WHILE driving; but it doesn't discourage people from
drinking BEFORE they drive. It's crazy, and hypocritical. Police nationwide are paid to enforce laws prohibiting drinkers
from commuting with open alcohol containers in their car; but what
about the 3-beers they drank BEFORE they started driving? As
long as their BAC is .079 or lower, they're considered legally
sober, even though the government's own NHTSA states that such
drivers are potentially dangerous.

This is a major loophole
in the legal system, and the reason why so many people are still
being maimed, victimized, and murdered by drivers under the
influence. The legal BAC of .08 is a ridiculous joke, a
travesty of justice, and a mockery to the entire legislative
system. This is all a big game that the wealthy beer
companies, their crooked wealthy lawyers, and the gutless wealthy
politicians have concocted to sucker the American people. Do
you really think that a person with a Blood-Alcohol-Content of .07
is NOT a danger to others? You're out of your mind if you
think so!

Drinking
Beer is Selfish!

We read in Galatians
5:14 in the Bible, "For all the law is fulfilled in one word,
even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself."
I just don't understand why anyone would want to risk all the
possible dangers associated with consuming alcoholic beverages,
except that they don't care about anyone except them self.

In fact, I have to wonder if they even care about themselves. I've stood over the graves of victims of alcohol-impaired-drivers,
and I've witnessed the bitter tears by their families as the
coffins were lowered into the dirt. The Word of God declares
drunkenness a sin (Galatians 5:21). Wherever you find sin
and evil in this world—you will also find alcoholic beverages. Sin and alcoholic beverages are inseparable! God
calls alcohol “a deceiver” in Proverb 20:1, and you would be wise to run
away from it before it makes you regret the day you were born.

"Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not
wise" (Proverb 20:1).

The above picture speaks 1,000 words. The beer industry hypocritically tells
teens not to drink alcohol until they are 21, while those same companies
saturate American culture with booze, booze, booze! Consequently, underaged
drinking is an epidemic problem in America!

1st Samuel 1:15, “And Hannah answered and said, No, my lord, I am a
woman of a sorrowful spirit: I have drunk neither wine nor strong drink, but
have poured out my soul before the LORD.”

Proverb:20:1, “Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and
whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.”

Proverb
31:4, “It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink
wine; nor for princes strong drink.”

Isaiah 5:22, “Woe
unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle
strong drink.”

Isaiah 24:9, “They shall
not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter to them that drink
it.”

Isaiah 28:7, “But they
also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way;
the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are
swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way through strong drink; they err
in vision, they stumble in judgment.”

“I've stood for more sneers and
scoffs and insults and had my life threatened from one end of the
land to the other by this God-forsaken gang of thugs and cutthroats
because I have come out uncompromisingly against them.” —Billy Sunday